Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Crowley, Louisiana, in Acadia Parish, has about 11,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the parish jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the District Court for Acadia Parish. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Crowley public records, Acadia Parish arrest records, Louisiana arrest records and Louisiana inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Crowley
The FBI lists Crowley with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Crowley Police Department. It reported 355 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 716 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Crowley Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Crowley: 355 for 2025, 203 for 2024 and 623 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Crowley's 355 arrests in 2025 were up 75 percent from 203 in 2024.
Through April 2026, Crowley reported 111 arrests, against 108 in the same months of 2025.
Across Acadia Parish, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,107 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Crowley Are Held
The parish jail is where a person arrested in Crowley and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2021 the jail held about 170 people, down from about 210 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2021 was 190 beds, and it ran at 89 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office at acadia.lavns.org (page title: Acadia Parish Jail), phone 337.788.8700, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, whose inmate locator is at doc.la.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Crowley
For Crowley the place to look is the case index of the District Court for Acadia Parish, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at acadiaparishclerk.com, phone (337) 788-8881).
Louisiana does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Crowley
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Louisiana Public Records Law the agency must answer within 3 business days when the record is not immediately available, and it may charge a reasonable fee for copies.
- An arrest by the Crowley police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at crowleypolice.com (page title: Crowley Police Department), phone (337)783-1234, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 337.788.8700.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Acadia Parish, through the court records page at acadiaparishclerk.com, phone (337) 788-8881.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The Acadia Parish guide covers every agency in the parish: Acadia Parish arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Crowley each year?
Crowley reported 355 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Crowley?
Ask the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office at 337.788.8700; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at acadia.lavns.org.
Where are people arrested in Crowley booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Crowley?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Acadia Parish are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Louisiana Public Records Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Crowley?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Crowley police for its own arrests, the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Louisiana Public Records Law the answer is due within 3 business days when the record is not immediately available.
Is this the official Crowley website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, parish, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.